Kurzgesagt has a contract with Open Philanthropy (a reputation laundering vehicle for billionaires) to promote concepts related to Effective Altruism in their videos, essentially making them a propaganda outlet for billionaire egomaniacs who fancy themselves philosopher-kings. Effective Altruism is a philosophical movement that caught on in elite circles because it enables them to justify their selfishness by reframing it as focusing their philanthropy on specific causes they believe will have the greatest impact, which in recent years is mostly AI research. It gives them a rhetorical framework to pass off their passion projects as philanthropy and an excuse for not dedicating resources to things like stopping climate change, ending world hunger, or - god forbid - wealth inequality.

Their content has always been high-quality but there's just something terribly depressing about watching it - I dropped them years ago because of that feeling.

I dropped them since they became clickbaity, and something seemed off. Maybe they sold themselves out?

I stopped fawning over them when they released the " Smoking Is Cool " episode. Somebody's getting a paycheck here